Meanings of state language in English

Ukrainian remains the state language; the right to speak Russian is guaranteed.

Across former states of the Soviet Union, only Belarus still recognizes Russian as a state language.

Amhara is home to Ethiopia's second largest ethnic group and gives its name to the state language, Amharic.

Kiev is also against introducing Russian as a second- state language and federalising the political system, both things that Russia is demanding.

Mothers' and children's use of internal state language during reminiscing of the negative event uniquely predicted children's trait and evaluative self-representations, independent of culture.

Mandarin Chinese includes a multitude of dialects, such as Standard Chinese, which is the official state language of the Chinese government, and the Beijing dialect.

A dialect of Iran's Farsi language is one of two state languages in Afghanistan, and Iran hosted millions of Afghan refugees during decades of war.